Wal Mart, the corporate welfare queen, has benefited from more than $1 billion in economic subsidies from state and local governments will creating jobs that tend to poverty-level, part-time and lacking in healthcare benefits.
http://www.progress.org/2004/corpw37.htm
In 2005, a Federal highway bill contained a $37 million dollar earmark for widening and extending the road in Bentonville, Arkansas that is the main access point to the Wal-Mart headquarters, thanks to Republican representative John Boozman (R-AR).
http://www.progress.org/2005/tcs179.htm
Six members of the Walton family are worth $9 billion dollars, yet many of their workers rely on food stamps and rent subsidies to get by.
So, do we cut food stamps and rent subsidies or do we insist that any retailers benefiting from government subsidies pay their workers a living wage?
